Nancy Pelosi Reveals She Was ‘Very Scared’ After Learning Her Husband Paul Was Attacked

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was affectional arsenic she gave her archetypal tv interrogation since her husband, Paul Pelosi, was brutally attacked with a hammer successful their San Francisco location connected Friday, October 28. Recalling learning astir the incident, she said she was astatine archetypal confused erstwhile she heard large bangs connected her flat doorway successful Washington, D.C. “I look up, I spot it’s 5, they indispensable beryllium astatine the incorrect apartment,” she recalled to CNN’s Anderon Cooper. “So I tally to the door, and I’m precise scared. I spot the Capitol Police and they say, ‘We person to travel successful to speech to you.'”

The 82-year-old person said she was shocked to larn her husband, besides 82, had been attacked. “I was precise scared,” she remembered with tears successful her eyes. “I’m reasoning my children, my grandchildren. I ne'er thought it would beryllium Paul because, you know, I knew helium wouldn’t beryllium retired and about, shall we say.”

Nancy Pelosi has spoken retired regarding her husband’s brutal onslaught successful a sit-down interrogation with Anderson Cooper (Photo: Shutterstock)

David DePape, 42, was rapidly identified arsenic the attacker. He intended to abduct Nancy and “break her kneecaps” if she “lied” to him astir the accusation helium wanted from her, according to tribunal documents obtained by the Daily Mail. He referred to her arsenic the “‘leader of the pack’ of lies told by the Democratic Party” erstwhile speaking to investigators. He besides reportedly targeted the Democratic person to “show different Members of Congress determination were consequences to actions.”

Instead, David got clasp of Paul and bushed him with a hammer, fracturing his skull. He was cared for astatine the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital by the intensive attraction portion and was discharged connected Nov. 3, six days aft the frightening assault. David pleaded not blameworthy to a myriad of charges relating to the attack, including attempted murder, burglary, and assault, per the Dail Mail, and is being held without bail.

Nancy Pelosi and Paul Pelosi person been joined since 1963 (Photo: Shutterstock)

He is facing up to 50 years successful situation for national charges, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California. “DePape is charged with 1 number of battle of an contiguous household subordinate of a United States authoritative with the intent to retaliate against the authoritative connected relationship of the show of authoritative duties, which carries a maximum condemnation of 30 years successful prison,” the bureau told Fox News in a statement. “DePape is besides charged with 1 number of attempted kidnapping of a United States authoritative connected relationship of the show of authoritative duties, which carries a maximum condemnation of 20 years successful prison.”

Nancy’s interrogation came connected the eve of the 2022 midterm elections. She revealed that the result of the predetermination and the horrific onslaught connected her hubby volition find if she retires from politics pursuing a decades-long career.